DENVER — Colorado’s Supreme Court on Monday knocked six-term U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn from his party’s primary, saying the Colorado Springs Republican didn’t collect enough valid voter signatures to qualify for the ballot. The court ruled that Lamborn fell 58 signatures short of the 1,000 from registered Republicans he needs to qualify for the primary ballot because two of the people who circulated petitions for Lamborn were not legal Colorado residents. Lamborn’s campaign said it planned to go to federal court to challenge the constitutionality of the Colorado law that the Supreme Court relied on in its Monday ruling. He gathered enough votes there to make the ballot, bumping Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman off of it in the process. Lamborn was first elected to the U.S. House in 2006, after spending 12 years in the Colorado state Legislature.

Source: National Post April 23, 2018 21:54 UTC